Established 1983

Hours: Monday to Saturday 10am - 5pm
485 Jumpers Hole Road, Severna Park, MD 21146

Abigail Faye McBride

"Across the Water"
Oil 24 x 30
$2,600

"Red Delicious"
Oil 18 x 24
$2,200

"The Model"
Oil 24 x 18
$2,700

Abigail McBride

Abigail McBride paints in the American Impressionist tradition of plein air landscapes, still lifes, and portraits. paintings focus on the color and light of late afternoon and early evening sunsets. She works with both a brush and a palette knife.

The February 2000 issue of American Artist Magazine interviewed Abigail on her palette knife techniques, featuring a number of her oil paintings.

The tradition of American Impressionists working with a palette knife began with Charles W. Hawthorne forcing his students to paint with putty knives. He was trying to force them to let go of illustrative drawing and details and instead focus on masses and color relationships. The palette knife is an effective tool for studying color relationships.

Abigail McBride painting "Gingerville" en plein air with a palette knife
According to Abigail,"The main advantage is that it makes the painting process much cleaner. Brushes tend to hold the residue of other colors. (With the palette knife) I’m not mixing any residue into a new color..."

A Maryland artist, Abigail has studied under Impressionist John Ebersberger and Cedric & Joanette Egeli, nationally known portrait painters. Abigail graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. She continued her studies under John Ebersberger and at the Cape Cod School of Art as an assistant.

Abigail was juried into the Annapolis 350 Celebration for the 350th anniversary of Annapolis and Anne Arundel County. She also had a solo show at The Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts in 1999. A first time exhibitor at the May 1999 Greenwell Foundation show, she won second place for her painting, River Willow. The Annapolis Waterclor Club awarded Abigail Best of Show at their annual juried show in 2001.

She is well known for her portrait commissions of children and adults in charcoal and oil. She has exhibited at the Maryland Federation of Art, The Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, McBride Gallery in Annapolis, Benfield Gallery, in Severna Park,The FAN Gallery in Philadelphia and the Egeli Gallery in Provincetown.

In February of 2002 Maryland Public Television (MPT) featured Abigail painting snow-scapes on an annual painting trip to Western Maryland. The segment aired on the “Outdoors Maryland” program, winning an Emmy Award, followed by the exhibition, “Shades of Winter” at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts.

In 2004 Abigail juried into “Sunlight and Shadow” at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum. The exhibit was presented in conjunction with an exhibit of the Bucks County Pennsylvania Impressionists. The public was invited to compare early Pennsylvania Impressionist paintings with the current generation of working Mid-Atlantic Impressionist painters.

American Artist Magazine featured McBride again in April 2007 in an article "Adding to Your Set of Creative Tools."

A founding member of the Mid Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association, Abigail has exhibited in numerous juried plein air painting events, winning awards for her paintings.